Quotes About Empowerment

to Maxfield to get away from the crap I'd put up with all my life in lousy schools. I wasn't going to let a couple

It's up to you." He reached across the front seat and grabbed her hand. "It's always up to you." He drew her hand to his lips and pressed a soft kiss into her palm.

Strong women can be so underappreciated unless you're screaming for their help.

A very important part of creating a new life was independence. She did not want to be accountable to anyone but herself.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies—Nelson Mandela. "Enough,

She would never be without support. Sierra was nine months sober.

MY PAIN IS NAMED

I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean.

No more moping around grieving! No more letting others push you around! No more playing the damned victim! Toughen up, Ava. And if the past bothers you so much, then figure it out.

She wasn't running away from anything, she was running to what promised to be a new life; one that didn't include her husband Tim and the Valley Star.

It serves no purpose to relive the worst moments of your life.

Im~Freaking~Pervious!!!! ~ Eve

I know as well as you do that only the individual has the key to change themselves. It's buried deep inside each and every one of us and although someone else can help us to find the key, we're the only ones who can use it.

You can keep telling girls to be polite, to keep a level head and it'll all work out in the end. But don't be surprised when they figure out that you've been feeding them lies.

Be yourself

Once you gave up fear, you regained your power.

I do high heels better post-caffeine.

How many of us allow others to define us and thus we become what they want us to be, not what we should be or could be?

Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was a sign that a mom said no when it counted.

Motherhood was not for the weak.

I don't want to be less than, so some guy can feel more than. Capisce?

Lisa Scottoline

If women had power, we wouldn't need Spanx.

Books center us, heal us, and connect us, and I believe that reading is fundamental to democracy.